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19 Books for Teachers Going Back to School
It's almost back-to-school time! Here are some of our favorite books for teachers to make sure that the start of your year is a successful one.
Project Based Learning
Project Based Learning (also known as PBL), is an approach that connects inquiry, solving real-world problems and meaningful hands-on experiences. This is a perfect opportunity to integrate the arts! But be careful - there's more to this than just fun projects. In this comprehensive area, you'll find everything you need to connect PBL and the arts with integrity. Want to learn more? Try our Project Based Learning in the Arts online class in our Accelerator membership and build a PBL lesson while getting 25 PD hours.
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Writing… with a digital twist!
Students can strengthen their English Language Arts skills through the use of the arts and technology integration to create digital stories.
Educator PD
STEAM Design Challenge: Kinetic Wind Sculptures
Kinetic Wind Sculptures are not only fun to make, they are perfect for providing a STEAM design challenge for school campuses and classrooms!
Curriculum
Illuminated Initials – New Unit!
In this new unit, students will learn a brief history of illuminated letters & manuscripts, and then they will create illuminated initials to represent it.
Advocacy
Creating Classroom Arts Centers: Media Arts
There's room to allow for open-ended, creative expression through the arts center media arts.
Educator PD
Arts Integration Supply Review: Liquid Watercolor
Liquid watercolor is amazing! Here are their pros and cons, teacher tips from an art educator, and techniques for using them in your lessons with students.
Classroom Management
3 Ideas for Building Class Community Through the Arts
The beginning of the year is the perfect time to lay the foundation for a safe learning environment by building class community arts.
Strategies
Creating Classroom Arts Centers: Dance
Creating classroom arts centers dance for all the arts is very important and there is room to allow for creative expression of content through it.
Educator PD
Self. Where It All Begins.
In society we squash any confidence as we so closely misalign it with being egotistical; these are two totally different things and where it all begins.
Curriculum
Measurement, Data, and Infographics with Growth Creatures: STEAM Unit
Infographics with growth creatures are a perfect way to integrate the arts with math and science to take instruction to a deeper level.
Strategies
Creating Classroom Arts Centers: Visual Art
Classroom art area is a fantastic start to implementing art.
Assessment
Why Administrators Should Not Have All the Answers
I used to wonder how administrators support me as a music teacher when they didn't have any experience in my field and they don't have the answers.
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